We’ve raved about the Twixt presentation we saw at Comic-Con and a similar version of the promo trailer we saw has gone online. During the presentation, the promo trailer was reedited multiple times with different music, and this is yet a new cut, but it still conveys the gist of what we saw. You can see that the movie looks all over the place but all those places look interesting and it’s one of the many reasons why Twixt has me intrigued.
Hit the jump to check out the trailer. The film stars Val Kilmer, Bruce Dern, Elle Fanning, and Ben Chaplin. Twixt will play at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.
Trailer via Shock Till You Drop.
Here’s the official synopsis for Twixt:
A writer with a career in decline arrives in a small town as part of his book tour and gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl. That night in a dream, he is approached by a mysterious young ghost named V. He’s unsure of her connection to the murder in the town, but is grateful for the story being handed to him. Ultimately he is led to the truth of the story, surprised to find that the ending has more to do with his own life than he could ever have anticipated.
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Strange Vibe
Coppola does David Lynch
“and Val Kilmer as the Beaver.”
Val Kilmar presence makes it totally a C-Grade movie
I half wonder if Coppola cast Kilmer’s ex-wife in it (as, apparently, Kilmer’s character’s wife or ex) just to mess with him.
sums up Coppola’s goal as a filmmaker after the 70s, he really WANTS to be experimental. i guess, if he really makes THAT “comeback” that everybody wants him to make, it won’t be the straightforward masterpiece of classical filmmaking like the Godfather. it would a Lynch-ian mind f***
Man you really talked this one up Matt. This looks like a lame Syfy Channel movie.
i dont know if im missing something, but that looks terrible…
I agree, Nick, this just looks low budget, without an ounce of interest or charisma, and I rarely comment on these things.
Being a massive Coppola junkie…I gotta say…I’m not so sure that I dig on this. I love Kilmer…even though he hasnt pulled a rabbit out of his ass since…oooooooh I don’t know…the Salton Sea…& Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. But its been a bit…& I don’t really get much outta this preview. Skeptical. But it’s Coppola…so…maybe. Oh yeah…MacGruber. Yeah I saidit…MACEFFINGRUBER!
Whoops…shouldve spelled MAC-EFFIN-GRUBER…that previous one came out like Mace Finger Rubber or sumpin.
you guys are afraid of art, brace yourself for something different, it looks amazing, dan deacons score is hautingly brilliant, dialogue sounds like poetry gleaming over it, i’m excited
Surely this will be Coppola’s best movie since Tetro.
If this film is basically being edited live based on audience reaction, I would imagine a certain amount of “genericism” and open-endedness to the story that would have to be present in all of the setpieces. Now imagine the difficulty of trying to cut together a trailer based on that conceit. Maybe that’s what everyone is picking up on. It looks like a pretty high-concept type of thing, but there’s an element of old-style theatre that maybe our interwebDVRtwitterONDemand culture won’t have the appetite (or patience?) for. TWIXT might end up being one of those things that divides the crowd into those who have an interest in art & its’ creation, and those who consume media (not that there’s anything wrong with that…).
Or I could just be full of s#!t.